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Track(s) taken from CDP12104

The Birds

First line:
From out of a wood did a cuckoo fly
composer
Anonymous - traditional
Traditional Czech
author of text
Anonymous - traditional
Traditional Czech
translator of text
Percy Dearmer (1867-1936)

Wells Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer (conductor), Rupert Gough (organ), Ruth Arnold (soprano), Stephen Burrows (countertenor), Iain MacLeod-Jones (tenor), Laurence Whitehead (baritone)
Recording details: June 2002
Wells Cathedral, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: May 2003
Total duration: 0 minutes 52 seconds

Cover artwork: Meonstoke Church, Hampshire.
Photograph by Derek Forss
 

Reviews

‘The boy and girl descants are on fine form’ (Classic FM Magazine)

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